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The Choice of Hercules, Annabali Carracci, 1596

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Megan
Megan
November 7, 2024 12:08 pm

Kia Ora, Cats! Surviving well amongst a group of Never Trumpers.

I’m keeping my poker face on to hide the Smug. And to survive the next 4 days of retreat.

Petros
Petros
November 7, 2024 1:18 pm
Reply to  Megan

I’m just going to grin from ear to ear. They can get stuffed.

Megan
Megan
November 7, 2024 2:06 pm
Reply to  Petros

I’m dependent on a longish car ride back to the airport so I’m playing it cagey until I’m safely there.

Bazinga
Bazinga
November 7, 2024 4:03 pm
Reply to  Megan

I can’t imagine the whining you’ll have to endure. Get good at subject changes.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 7, 2024 12:28 pm

Lovely painting Dover.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 7, 2024 1:00 pm
Reply to  Mak Siccar

That’s a fair sized bit of arse. I love the fabrics in the old paintings.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 7, 2024 4:30 pm
Reply to  Mak Siccar

I know I occasionally ask that some of these girls get a feed up before bedding them, but it’s advice – not a demand. At some time, they need to stop.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 7, 2024 12:29 pm

I posted my obligatory Phys.org science news story of the day on arse end of the old thread. Which is probably the best place for it, so I won’t repeat it here.

Nos_Pullum
Nos_Pullum
November 7, 2024 12:29 pm

All this talk about lower voter turnout for the Dems compared to 2020 can just as equally be explained as fake turnout that occurred then, but not now.

Afterall, if voting for the first black, man President was a compelling reason, then the first black, lady President is a lot more compelling a reason to actually vote than what Biden represented, for those who would be motivated for that sort of thing. Especially if they weren’t worried about getting the covid this time around.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 7, 2024 12:48 pm
Reply to  Nos_Pullum

As for the Latino vote, I defer to Gray Connolly: the Democrats appeal to the Latinx, and the Republicans to the Latinos and Latinas.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 7, 2024 12:43 pm

So the Rising Tide blockade of Newcastle harbour will go ahead regardless of a Supreme Court injunction against it:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-07/supreme-court-prohibits-rising-tide-newcastle-climate-protest/104547892

Contempt of court proceedings, anyone? If (like the Wilkinson speech at the Logies) that’s not contempt then I don’t know what is.

Pogria
Pogria
November 7, 2024 12:57 pm
Reply to  Old Lefty

Old Lefty, we should go. Crack some heads. Soy boys fall easy. 😀

mareeS
mareeS
November 7, 2024 5:24 pm
Reply to  Old Lefty

They try this on every November in Port of Newcastle. But this year there have been significant police and Border Force craft and personnel in port the past 2 months, assessing the situation.
They will not let this happen. $20,000 fine per individual for blocking a commercial navigation channel, and the Port Corp is apparently determined to pursue this.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
November 7, 2024 7:10 pm
Reply to  mareeS

Means nothing if some activist judge thinks they meant well and were just enthusiastic.

I wonder if the Ports Corp could pursue the judge responsible?

duncanm
duncanm
November 8, 2024 8:40 am
Reply to  Old Lefty

I’m sure there’s some handy fire boats in Newcastle harbour.

Just sayin’

Bruce
Bruce
November 8, 2024 9:49 am
Reply to  Old Lefty

And how do the vermin know that it is not the tide “rising” but the land SINKING.

Those of us who remember that earthquake will be well aware that much of Newcastle is built on seriously unstable “land”.

The soil suffered serious liquefaction when jiggled by the quake.

THAT is why so many buildings ended up at cray angles.

If you can find a REAL geologist, a more detailed view may arise.

On a related note:

Only a government would build an enormous dam directly on top of a huge fault line. (At least it is a rock wall dam, so that is has some “flex>

Just for giggles; consider the last major flood in SE Queensland, That was how a years’-long drought broke. The “experts” at Qld Water REFUSED to bleed off water for some perverse reason.

The trick is that Wivenhoe is a rock (‘”rubble”) wall with a CLAY (smectite) “water-proof” core.

IF the water level rises above that core, it will rapidly erode said core and much of Brisbane, etc, will end up in a jumbled mess out in Moreton Bay. Driven by a wall of water 20 to 30 metres high and traveling at 80 + KM/h. A scaled-up version of the 1890’e floods that surged down the Stanley tributary of the Brisbane, .

To be followed by over a decade of a severe, nation-wide drought.

Gaia seems to be somewhat capricious, in reality.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 7, 2024 12:57 pm

The gruinaid will be a salt mine for the next few weeks…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/election-results-trump-presidency-win

They were confronted by the fact that Trump’s pitch to the American people, built on his dark and lie-packed vision of a country in terminal decline, “swamped” by murdering “illegal aliens”, and on the point of a communist takeover, had prevailed

Cry more, it just makes my genitals more engorged…

Harris’s aborted victory party, followed by a delayed concession speech, bore chilling echoes with Hillary Clinton’s painful experience in 2016. For the second time in eight years, a woman had failed to break through the “highest, hardest glass ceiling” to become America’s first female president – thwarted by a man who campaigned against them in the most disparaging terms.

What is a woman??

Trump’s victory also came five days before world leaders gather in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the Cop29 climate summit at which they will attempt to forge a deal in which rich nations help the developing world avoid fossil fuel-powered growth. Trump’s mantra of “drill, baby, drill”, and his warning that he will pull the US out of the Paris agreement for a second time, now hang ominously over the proceedings.

Vision blurring… all .blood ..in genitals..

He has pledged to smash the US government as we know it, firing hundreds of thousands of civil servants and replacing them with “yes” people. He has threatened to carry out the largest mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in US history – amounting to many millions. He has vowed to end the independence of the US justice department, and pursue prosecutions of his political enemies while eradicating the federal cases against himself.

Ive expired.
No need for tombstone, Just rename where you bury me Mt Tallywhacker.
?

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 7, 2024 8:39 pm

It’s not impossible for a woman to become president of the United States. Just not a woke nonentity like Harris.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
November 7, 2024 1:07 pm

thefrollickingmole
November 7, 2024 12:57 pm

The gruinaid will be a salt mine for the next few weeks…

Champagne Comedy

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 7, 2024 8:43 pm
Reply to  Carpe Jugulum

The GayBC staff counsellors must be overwhelmed. Only The High Court acquittal of Pell – which left the ABC worker soviet so shocked that it took them nearly an hour to report – could compare with it.

bons
bons
November 7, 2024 1:21 pm

Fascinating that there hasn’t been a 2016 style explosion.

No blatant violence, no pompous moronic actors squarking, no pussy hats, no threats, no national pilgrimages, no Bob, no George.

Could the Left have burned themselves out?

Hopefully not. We need a reason for Trump to crush them.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 7, 2024 1:46 pm
Reply to  bons

I suspect orders have gone out from Central HQ in Martha’s Vineyard.

Muddy
Muddy
November 7, 2024 2:41 pm
Reply to  bons

I’m shocked there has not been any pre-election large scale civil unrest. To show how clueless I am on this subject, I was predicting some months ago that one of the options for the demons would be to provoke and stoke such unrest – ala 2020 – and then declare a state of emergency, whereby the election would be at least suspended temporarily.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 7, 2024 4:34 pm
Reply to  Muddy

Give them time – they are still stunned. It’s been a good, solid, smack across the head by the Mother Of All Cluebats.

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 7, 2024 3:02 pm
Reply to  bons

Wait until Inauguration Day, it will be on then.

Last edited 3 months ago by Boambee John.
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 7, 2024 1:23 pm

To call the churnalists of the gruinaid unhinged does not even scratch the surface. How do these people function. Here’s the middle finger for your stupidity and a sideways one for the goat you rode in on.

Muddy
Muddy
November 7, 2024 2:42 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

Llamas. Goats are for the common people.

Rabz
November 7, 2024 1:35 pm

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

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Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 7, 2024 8:06 pm
Reply to  Rabz

hahaha – beautiful

Gabor
Gabor
November 7, 2024 1:38 pm

a woman had failed to break through the “highest, hardest glass ceiling”

Wrong, not “a woman”, but again the wrong woman/candidate.
People in general are stupid and easily influenced, but not that stupid.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 7, 2024 8:45 pm
Reply to  Gabor

A ‘woman’ who can’t even say what a woman is!

Gabor
Gabor
November 7, 2024 1:44 pm

BOSCH dismisses 7,000 employees.

Could it be that they were not really needed in the first place?
It happens you know, when times are good with big companies.

Muddy
Muddy
November 7, 2024 1:49 pm

the “highest, hardest glass ceiling”

How many layers of this glass ceiling are there, and is it static?

Have we considered that POTUS Trump may have the remote control for moving the glass ceiling in one of his pockets?

Why do (some) women have the desire to smash glass?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 7, 2024 1:52 pm

Hahaaa!

Mark Dice:

2024 Election Meltdowns Continue!

will
will
November 7, 2024 2:05 pm

The Tele:
Harris calls for ‘respect’ as Rudd removes anti-Trump tweet.”

where?

““I do not concede the fight that fuelled this campaign”. She said the Democrats “will engage in a peaceful transfer of power”…“This is a time to roll up our sleeves. This is a time to mobilise organise and stay engaged for the sake of freedom and justice and the future we all know we can build together,” she said.”

really? She said no such thing.

“Kamala Harris Concedes With Bitter, Divisive Speech”Kamala Harris’s concession speech was a blend of the obligatory humble platitudes but included its fair share of pointed, bitter undertones, making it hard to discern if she was truly conceding or rallying for a future fight.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 7, 2024 2:07 pm

A reminder that there are still plenty of shithole countries in the world.
Honest Government Ad | Visit Myanmar!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERiZRUIlnaw

It does prompt the question of how foreign companies can do business with a despotic regime with a clear conscience. Perhaps under the argument that to refuse to do business with them would be making a political statement. The business is merely business logic.

Last edited 3 months ago by Colonel Crispin Berka
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 7, 2024 2:13 pm

Peter FitzSimons makes extraordinary ultimatum after suggesting Americans who voted for Trump are stupid

  • Mr FitzSimons ‘quietly thought’ Kamala would win
  • Claimed Aussie would ‘reel in horror’ at Trump’s America

Daily Mail.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 7, 2024 2:56 pm

Must send the clip of him being touched up by the French and his team mates, cough, not giving a fat rats about it. Probably thinking they should help the French.

Roger
Roger
November 7, 2024 2:26 pm

Maybe FitzSimons should swap harbour-side Sydney for a year in a Texan border town or a small city in flyover country where the factory closed in the 1990s.

Then he might begin to understand Americans who voted for Trump.

Barry
Barry
November 7, 2024 2:32 pm

Haven’t heard this very often in this incarnation of the blog.

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 7, 2024 2:40 pm
Reply to  Barry

I think it was Admiral “Jackie” Fisher, who said if any man offended him, he would render his home a dunghill, his wife a widow and his children fatherless?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 7, 2024 3:24 pm
Reply to  Barry

Arnie was backing Kamala.
Maybe he was hoping for some more lamentation of the womeny stuff.

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 7, 2024 3:30 pm
Reply to  Barry

For leftards, it is the lamentations of their (girly) men.

Hello mUntard. Keep your lamentations at a low volume please.

Last edited 3 months ago by Boambee John.
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 7, 2024 2:41 pm

The fun viewing continues.

Mark Dice:

MORE ELECTION MELTDOWNS 2024 EDITION

Rabz
November 7, 2024 2:46 pm

FitzSimians ‘quietly thought’ Kackling Kamel would win

Which is why he couldn’t stop telling all and sundry, as if anyone sane who had the misfortune to hear his worthless opinion gave a rodent’s.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 7, 2024 2:50 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 7, 2024 2:55 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Bottom story of the day, subterranean even.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 7, 2024 2:57 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Oh no!

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 7, 2024 3:33 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

Anyway …

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 7, 2024 8:47 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Is she too traumatized by Trump’s victory to carry on?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 7, 2024 3:12 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

To be fair Eugene Volokh points out that not all the data is in yet, and the 2020 numbers may not be as far out of whack as we think.

https://instapundit.com/682849/

I, of course, think the Dems stole 2020 fair and square. But I’m happy to consider reasoned arguments to the contrary. For maybe five seconds, anyway.

Zippster
Zippster
November 7, 2024 2:57 pm

MORE ELECTION MELTDOWNS 2024 EDITION

are these public meltdowns some form of affirmation of righteous virtue signalling?? asking for a friend

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 7, 2024 3:09 pm
Reply to  Zippster

What a “Joy” to behold. These people should not breed under any circumstances.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 7, 2024 6:29 pm
Reply to  Zippster

They are expressions of terminal narcissicm.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 7, 2024 2:57 pm

Would Donald Trump be aware of Albo’s quote “I fight Tories, that’s what I do?”

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 7, 2024 8:52 pm

Trump, however, isn’t a conventional Tory. There’s an odd crossover between some of his supporters and Bernie Sanders in their denunciation of ‘neo-liberal economics’.

calli
calli
November 7, 2024 2:59 pm

Megan

 November 7, 2024 2:06 pm

I’m dependent on a longish car ride back to the airport so I’m playing it cagey until I’m safely there.

Request some travelling music. Village People YMCA should do the trick. You can do the victory dance seated, you know,

Megan
Megan
November 7, 2024 6:46 pm
Reply to  calli

Hahahahaha!

Am so trying that!

calli
calli
November 7, 2024 3:28 pm

For the second time in eight years, a woman had failed to break through the “highest, hardest glass ceiling” to become America’s first female president 

Tsk, tsk, Guardian.

What, exactly, is this thing called a “woman”?

Please define it for your confused readers.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 7, 2024 3:28 pm

I hope and pray there is much more of this quality “thinking” by our leftist intelligencia.

A marketing man, skilled at targeting discontent, Trump does not follow his crowds. Rather, he is led by the money men around him: the fossil fuel executives, the shadow bankers, the crypto bros and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 7, 2024 3:34 pm

In slithering turds you wouldnt piss on if they were on fire, Canbraaaaghhh edition…

https://x.com/i/status/1854334839236767763

https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg BREAKING — MISINFORMATION BILL UPDATE https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg

73 Labor Ministers and 6 Independents have voted YES for the Misinformation bill to pass its second reading.

It is now being rushed through its final reading — and WILL pass the lower house.

?

Warwick
Warwick
November 7, 2024 3:36 pm

A while back, Peter Fitzsimian declared on Twitter that the 58000 residents of Springfield Ohio wanted the 10000+ Haitian immigrations. They were delighted to have them in effect. But, somehow, the County went heavy for Trump, the Congressional seat went heavily Republican, and the state of Ohio went for Trump/Vance.

These Springfield folks seem entirely ungrateful, not rewarding Kamal for her largesse.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 7, 2024 3:59 pm
Reply to  Warwick

They were delighted to have them

Dogs and cats cost a lot to feed, and geese are really annoying. When playing at Steelworks GC it was always irritating when you putted on the green only for your ball to impact a large goose turd with a slight but audible squshing noise.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 7, 2024 4:18 pm
Reply to  Warwick

A lot of people want immigrants. Just somewhere else, unless they have your UberEats order.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
November 7, 2024 7:04 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Do they use Uber eats in Martha’s Vineyard, or do they let their personal chefs only prepare their meals?

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 7, 2024 4:15 pm

An orange Hercules. Nice.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 7, 2024 4:24 pm

Roger

 November 7, 2024 9:41 am

Sky just had some abortion hungry chick rabbiting on about a woman’s “body rights”. 

The tide is slowly turning against them.

They can sense it, thus the rhetoric becomes more shrill.

Yes – I’ve had wives and girlfriends who follow the pattern.
My pattern is showing them the door and how to stop it smacking their arses on the way out.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 7, 2024 4:25 pm

All the right people are upset.

Though Phatty adams is facing dying while trump is in office…
Preferably just after PM Dutton shuts down the ABC.

Phillip Adams
@PhillipAdams_1
Good morning America. Time to toss the Trumpster in the dumpster
5:34 AM · Nov 6, 2024
·39.9K
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Carmichael
Carmichael
November 7, 2024 6:09 pm

Phillip Adams is a boring and pompous git. Hardly a week goes by where he reminds readers that he once had his own ASIO file or that he has entertained numerous prime ministers at his home.

Chris
Chris
November 8, 2024 12:04 pm
Reply to  Carmichael

I am Chris, and I approve this message.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
November 7, 2024 4:46 pm

Assuming Canada will soon be copping an influx of boomers from Hollywood… and half the fighting-age men of Honduras and Haiti.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 7, 2024 4:50 pm
Reply to  Wally Dali

Canada – Manus Island with snow

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 7, 2024 4:53 pm

I’ve had a few generations of Will Wagtails nest here for several years but they’ve been a bit shy the last year or so.
I’ve heard them around the carport and front verandah this year but unable to see the nest.
This morning, I opened the front door to see two newly hatched babies sitting on the railings. They look ridiculous – long skinny legs on minute bodies.
So I’ve put out bread for them and I’m defrosting a bit of sausage mince to see if they accept it.
I’ll try to get some photos.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 7, 2024 6:23 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Today i heard an almighty screech coming from the open part of our verandah. Sitting there was a white cockatoo. We get both white and black flocks of cockatoos passing through our gully, but they rarely do more than attack some of their fave cypress or fruit trees in our garden. This one though just sat there on the railing. He/she didn’t seem to want any food. I offered some tasty morsels of bread on the rail, but they were ignored. So I opened a chatty-toned conversation with the bird, and he cocked his head sideways and moved his beady eyes as he listened to me. He even made a few noises in response. He’s a wild bird but he seemed very tame. He was without his flock, and I think he was just lonely. We had a good chat for over ten minutes which we both enjoying having. I went inside before he left. Hope he comes back or re-finds his crowd.

Delta A
Delta A
November 7, 2024 9:10 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Onya, Winnie.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 7, 2024 5:08 pm

Dolly Downer has a laugh at himself in the Opinion pages of today’s Paywallian. A reminder of the egomaniacs, lightweights and no hopers that have occupied the office of Foreign Minister over the years.

It is not clear why far Left ideologue and head Mean Girl, kd wrong, is there now, other than attending some cocktail parties before retiring to spend time with someone else’s family.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 7, 2024 5:24 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Possibly none more so than KRudd 2.0 getting Used Carr out of retirement and installed in the Senate to bore for Australia.

Tom
Tom
November 7, 2024 5:40 pm
Reply to  PeterM

Why was this clown ever allowed into the Liberal Party?

Because the Liberal Party essentially believes in nothing.

To party founder Sir Robert Menzies, a liberal was a classic economic liberal.

“Liberal” now means a radical campaigning for socialism and the demise of society’s bedrock, the family.

Matt Kean is a radical, but, like Malcolm Turnbull, was welcomed into the Liberal Party as a socialist revolutionary campaigning to end the free market by sabotaging the Australian energy system.

All they had to do was call themselves “liberals” to join the party that believes in nothing.

P
P
November 7, 2024 6:38 pm
Reply to  Tom

I remember well the ’49, ’51 and ’54 elections. I was still at school and there was no TV back then so the radio would blare out politics around each election time. 
After Menzies the only leader I saw who had the right ideas was Gorton who was destroyed by Fraser.

Lee
Lee
November 7, 2024 6:43 pm
Reply to  PeterM

He is a bald-headed left-wing wanker.

Jock
Jock
November 8, 2024 9:15 am
Reply to  PeterM

He is a wanker. If the US pulls out of the climate scam there will only be the EU, the UK, Canada and us following this net zero crap. On what level of delusion do you have to be to see that whatever we are doing will mean nothing overall ( presuming even that man made co2 was an issue)

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 7, 2024 5:56 pm

I love that painting on the top of the thread.

No Ozempic for those girls! They enjoyed being well fed back then.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
November 7, 2024 5:57 pm

Chris Kenny: Trump is crass, disrespectful and sometimes goes too far …

Did he jail anyone for walking in or around the Capitol? Did he appoint any extreme left judges who seem to take pleasure in helping to make lawfare against political opponents ok, or did he fund any DAs that promised to “get” a political opponent. Did he sell off the strategic oil reserve unnecessarily, or cancel the Keystone pipeline?
Did he strengthen or weaken the military in a period when they may be required to be at their best levels?
Did he weaponise the IRS, DOJ, FBI and CIA?

Chris Kenny: The Biden Harris administration “lost control” of the border.
No, Chris, it was deliberate. Biden and Mayorkas years ago were in a video saying they thought open borders were a good idea. The policies that we saw implemented support that.

Bruce
Bruce
November 8, 2024 10:02 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Yet, as they sat in the “classix”:

“None dare call it TREASON”.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
November 7, 2024 6:03 pm

Seems to me that given the way they’ve covered the U.S. election, our ABC should be the first to be nobbled by the Misinformation Bill.

Bruce
Bruce
November 8, 2024 10:04 am
Reply to  Indolent

Or, as Bette Midler, channeling Sophie Tucker, quipped:

“A hard man is good to find”.

So to speak…..

calli
calli
November 7, 2024 6:08 pm

Yes, it’s a good choice for the post election thread. Hercules must choose between virtue and vice, much like Americans chose yesterday. The hard way of work to glory, or easy free stuff.

If only there was a painting of a baited bear, breaking its chains and swiping away its sly, self-satisfied, casually cruel tormentors. Now that would illustrate it better.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 7, 2024 6:18 pm
Reply to  calli

Hercules chose virtue. He’s been a tireless climate realist and is a Christian.

This Actor’s Chance Encounter With Billy Graham Gave Him ‘Goosebumps’ (8 Oct)

Indolent
Indolent
November 7, 2024 6:08 pm
Zippster
Zippster
November 7, 2024 8:24 pm
Reply to  Indolent

beyonce called, she is still waiting for her $10m

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
November 7, 2024 6:08 pm

Chris Kenny: the extra 20million votes in 2020 were just a result of mail-in ballots being gathered by a keen mob of Democrat workers.

I have a bridge for sale Chris. Special price for you.

Lee
Lee
November 7, 2024 6:51 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Be interesting to know how Rowan Dean gets on behind the scenes with his Sky News colleagues.

Dean is fiercely pro-Trump. Many others are lukewarm at the very best, and often not even that.

Indolent
Indolent
November 7, 2024 6:10 pm
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 7, 2024 6:11 pm

You know what the dems did.
They attacked the men who literally just want to be left alone.

Poking the Amish with the regulatory stick – how did that work out for them in Pennsylvania?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14050577/amish-revenge-pennsylvania-polls-election-2024.html

Pennsylvania‘s traditionally private Amish community registered to vote in ‘unprecedented numbers’ after government agents stormed a local farm early in the year.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture raided Amos Miller’s farm on January 4, sparking outrage among the state’s Amish population, a source familiar with the matter told The New York Post.

Buller
Indolent
Indolent
November 7, 2024 6:12 pm

@MrReeKilla

Kamala only won the states that had no voter ID…

Election integrity is under the spotlight, and Americans are rightfully questioning whether certain states remain blue because of inadequate voting security. The contrast between red states with stringent ID laws and those without can’t be ignored.

Would the outcome change if we had ironclad systems: 100% paper ballots, 0% electronic interference, and strict voter ID checks?

“He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity… will dwell on the heights; his refuge will be the fortress of rocks.” [Isaiah 33:15-16]

How would stronger ID laws affect public trust in our electoral system? Would you feel more secure about the results?

calli
calli
November 7, 2024 6:14 pm

I saw that Bungie. Those 20 million mystery votes.

No one could be that dumb.

There are people in prison over the fallout from that election theft. I hope not for too much longer.

Lee
Lee
November 7, 2024 6:27 pm
Reply to  calli

Nothing suspicious at all about Democrats garnering 66-67 million votes in 2012, 2016 and 2024, but Joe “Basement” Biden 81 million in 2020.

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 7, 2024 6:52 pm
Reply to  calli

The DemonRats are going to regret stealing the 2020 election.

Trump has had time to reflect on his personnel errors in his first administration, and to gather a much more potent team for this time.

Lee
Lee
November 7, 2024 6:55 pm
Reply to  Boambee John.

Mark Steyn reckons that will make it a lot harder for Dems to carry out widespread voter fraud in future.

Indolent
Indolent
November 7, 2024 6:22 pm

How’s this for arrogance and patronization. We’re too stupid to know what’s good for us.

‘Uneducated’ hold country ‘hostage,’ says University of South Carolina instructor

Lee
Lee
November 7, 2024 6:32 pm
Reply to  Indolent

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

George Orwell

Vicki
Vicki
November 7, 2024 7:38 pm
Reply to  Indolent

And such people pretend to be defenders of “the oppressed”. What a pack of nasty, dishonest pretenders they are!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 7, 2024 6:32 pm

I greatly fear that CL is no longer around to share this great triumph of democracy. Still not a peep from him, nor any news. He would have been in the forefront of shared enjoyment with the best lines to headline his talking points if he was around to do so.

Lee
Lee
November 7, 2024 6:41 pm

I agree.

No one on this board or his own blog seems to know who he is or where to contact him.

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 7, 2024 6:53 pm

His blog is infested with a couple of nasty trolls. If CL is gone, it needs to be closed down.

Lee
Lee
November 7, 2024 7:03 pm
Reply to  Boambee John.

That might only happen when the money runs out or if heirs do it.

Never having had my own website I don’t how these things work out.

What I find most distasteful is that one of the trolls in particular (Martin) has been quite vicious in making up stories about C.L. being a Putin and Xi-lover in his absence.

Last edited 3 months ago by Lee
Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 7, 2024 8:50 pm
Reply to  Lee

With no evidence, other than lefturd arrogance.

Megan
Megan
November 7, 2024 9:52 pm
Reply to  Lee

Scum always rises to the surface.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 7, 2024 6:35 pm

Kenny still writing sludge I see. Lord the legacy meja is full of despicable lightweights. I see also we’re moving into the attacking voters phase.

dopey
dopey
November 7, 2024 6:45 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Kenny is like many in the media. Monumental ego trumps understanding.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 7, 2024 6:36 pm

MORE ELECTION MELTDOWNS 2024 EDITION

are these public meltdowns some form of affirmation of righteous virtue signalling?? asking for a friend

Images like these will be the decorations future generations adorn the Trumpmas Trees with.

And there will be a favourite Trumpmas carol – ‘Dreaming of a White Trumpmas’. It is not meant to celebrate any core MAGA tenet, but it is a way for family and friends – and Bing Crosby if you like – to re-live lines that have pavlovian power to trigger leftists, which is a warming thought for the whole family.

Roger
Roger
November 7, 2024 6:39 pm

Those 20 million mystery votes.

No one could be that dumb.

You’re saying the Australian media lied to us?

Shirley not!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 7, 2024 6:42 pm

My eldest son, who is Gen X and mildly autistic, texted today to share his delight that Trump has won. He reckons Trump speaks for Gen X. This son of mine has moved a long way politically from the left Marxism of his father (my ex) and of his sometime partner (who is American) and with whom he has a son (who is autistic). He’s over at the sometime partner’s separate residence today helping her with their son, but says privately in his text that he is finding her TDS quite hard to take. She’s not been at all well lately, so I advise him to keep his enthusiasm to himself just for the present.

So many of us with families are confronted with similar issues. When to state one’s beliefs firmly, and when to back off a little for the sake of harmony.

Vicki
Vicki
November 7, 2024 7:33 pm

And it’s not just families, Lizzie. Tomorrow night we are going to dinner at the house of friends who are good people but – sadly, very “Left”. Another couple attending are also, we believe of the same political inclination. It is inevitable that the Trump victory will arise. So, as so often happens, we have to exercise good manners, while retaining our convictions.

Fortunately, we have had a lot of practice!

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 7, 2024 8:22 pm

Refusing to stand up for your beliefs, Lizzie, is a sure way of encouraging those who would be confrontational to continue being confrontational.
It’s conversational ‘chicken’ – who is going to back down first? Don’t hand them that victory – it only encourages them.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 8, 2024 8:03 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

On the whole, Winston, I agree. But there are times when being confrontational can be unkind, as in this case when someone is greatly burdened by a medical issue. She and I have had a long political discussion and have agreed to differ. But that was when she was well. She met my son when he was a leftie; he no longer is, but is wise not to push the point right now.

Like Vicki above, we do have friends of long-standing who are still leftish. With them, we simply say we incline towards conservatism these days (expressions of wisdom on visage for that, lol) and change the topic. This generally works to keep things civil.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 7, 2024 6:49 pm

What, exactly, is this thing called a “woman”?

The Gruniad knows the binary paradigm (the word still has its original meaning – unlike ‘woman’) is nonsense, but the benightedly low-forehead right-wing people believe in it.

The elevated souls at Teh Gruniad, weighed down by theatrically ostentatious earnestness and mental constipation, despise those right-wing meat-eating rubes not only for their opinions, but even moreso for their opinions.

They are nuanced doncha know. So nuanced that they can tell the difference between the height of a man measured head to toe versus his height measured from toe to head.

All the stupid right wingers would think they were the same. Blind to the subtlety.

JC
JC
November 7, 2024 6:56 pm

A private school in Manhattan sent out an email that if teachers, students and parents wanted to grieve over the election they didn’t needed to come in on Thursday.

My kid said there was grief at work and people were asking how they managed to get through it.

Jerry Seinfeld rips woke NYC private school — where his kids attended — for allowing ‘distressed’ students to skip class day after election

JC
JC
November 7, 2024 6:59 pm

In the end, the Harris campaign failed to get enough endorsements from sex offenders. But you can’t say they didn’t try.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 7, 2024 7:02 pm

Happy Trump won Michigan too. Beautiful place. Detroit is fascinating.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 7, 2024 7:05 pm

and Arizona!

Roger
Roger
November 7, 2024 7:08 pm

My kid said there was grief at work and people were asking how they managed to get through it.

Only four tears to go!

And, Deo volente, JDV after that.

Chuckle.

bons
bons
November 7, 2024 7:29 pm

If you have not watched Letitia Jame’s statement regarding her responses to the election of Trump, do so.

Insane is an inadequate description. Fascist is closer, but still inadequate.

Her huge deceit is believing that NY can continue to act independantly in pursuit of Trump. She was pissing on the election.

I am going to enjoy watching that critical theory racist brought down.

Which raises the question if who Trump will appoint to DOJ? It will be the most critical appointment for the first two years.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 7, 2024 7:39 pm

Mak Siccar

 November 7, 2024 12:28 pm

Lovely painting Dover.

Quite so but, my God, the art market is fickle.
We bought a couple of paintings a year ago for $200,000.
Rang around some art dealers today and the best I can get is $1,000 the pair.
Can you believe it?
Original Hunter Bidens going for $500 a pop?
Un-fkn-believable.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 7, 2024 8:54 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

That sounds particularly bad. A friend’s husband loves buying unloved shit at auctions. Drives her mad.

Delta A
Delta A
November 7, 2024 9:18 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

He he.

You had me going there for a minute, Panzer. Shoulda known.

Rabz
November 7, 2024 7:39 pm

Blot, you stupid bloody dickhead – do you have any idea what a pathetic envious mediocrity you look like when you attack Tucker?

Give it a rest.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 7, 2024 7:49 pm

Cry more, your tears are ambrosia….

Its like they are competing to perform the most oestrogen drenched parody of a hysterical wench they can.

If Donald Trump’s previous administration taught us anything, it’s that women’s bodies do not matter. The autonomy of those bodies, the frequent injustices and abuses inflicted on them, are of little consequence to a far-right misogynist administration that is – unbelievably to some – back in power after an all too brief period of reprieve, if not change. Women’s bodies are also of little consequence to the people who voted for Donald Trump.

….
Women across the world are today experiencing the visceral, secondhand body horror of another Trump administration

..

Plus the added excitement of ambulant excrement not realizing the game has changed and imagining the tactics of 8 years ago may have consequences.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/election-trump-president-resistance-america
A peaceful but determined resistance to Trump must start nowRobert “TURD” Reich

Iwon’t try to hide it. I’m heartbroken. Heartbroken and scared, to tell you the truth

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 7, 2024 8:37 pm

If it’s that disastrous to their collective psyche, perhaps they could fly over to Canada where under their rules they can now off themselves?

Figures
Figures
November 7, 2024 7:52 pm

Given our misinformation bill will be specifically targeted at Elon’s X, what are the odds Australia will be subject to some serious tariffs if any penalties are handed to Musk for allowing content that makes Albo cry?

Rabz
November 7, 2024 7:57 pm

I won’t try to hide it. I’m heartbroken. Heartbroken and scared, to tell you the truth

Excellent news, now eff orf.

Feel free to also avail yourself of JC’s Suicide Hotline.

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 7, 2024 8:17 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Speaking of the Suicide Hotline, has JC been in touch yet with mUttley? He could offer him a range of choices, various tablets, jumping off a high bridge, traditional rope, but definitely not a gun. mUttley is against private use of firearms.

Zippster
Zippster
November 7, 2024 8:19 pm
Reply to  Rabz

The MAID hotline is toll free

bons
bons
November 7, 2024 7:59 pm

E-Karen hasn’t been given the jackboots yet so I am going to take advantage of what may be the last opportunity to express a belief.

What inspires Letitia James? She is a black female democrat. The most exploited ‘useful idiot’ victims in that nation.

Howard has been a disaster for smart black Americans.

MatrixTransform
November 7, 2024 7:59 pm

Albo

you’re pissing into the wind mate

time to stop

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 7, 2024 8:18 pm

Or turn around and face a different future.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 7, 2024 8:02 pm

A marketing man, skilled at targeting discontent, Trump does not follow his crowds. Rather, he is led by the money men around him: the fossil fuel executives, the shadow bankers, the crypto bros and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

They’ve spotted it!
Day one!
And yet, for twenty years, they missed the mile long conga line of renewables carpet baggers lined up to raid the public purse.

johanna
johanna
November 7, 2024 8:09 pm

Been away. On election night, zapping from site to site for results.

Since then, zapping from site to site enjoying the rain of leftie tears, interspersed with great coverage like Gutfeld, some Fox (they had Elon) etc.

I did follow the election thread, and it was awesome. Thanks to contributors.

Most of all – woo hoo!

And, agree with JC that Lara (not Laura, you dope) had a big role in making it much harder to rort the vote. If it is a sign of learning from the mistakes of last time, things are looking good.

Now, back to compilations of lefties demonstrating why they should never be in charge of anything. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 7, 2024 8:13 pm

H B Bear
 November 7, 2024 5:08 pm

Dolly Downer has a laugh at himself in the Opinion pages of today’s Paywallian. A reminder of the egomaniacs, lightweights and no hopers that have occupied the office of Foreign Minister over the years.

Given he was one of the original promulgators of the Wussia-Wussia-Wussia hoax, he may not be laughing if the right people get appointed to the DOJ.

Gabor
Gabor
November 7, 2024 8:18 pm

Lee
November 7, 2024 7:03 pm
Re. CL site

That might only happen when the money runs out or if heirs do it.

Never having had my own website I don’t how these things work out.

Don’t know if it’s a free site or paid for.
If it’s a free one, it will stay up for a long time as they rely on ads, we had a mate whose punting site is still up after his death more than ten years ago.

Probably needs reporting to the provider?

Makka
Makka
November 7, 2024 8:20 pm

m0ron not here yet? Still crying into his soymilk weetbix?

Hopefully he has taken this total rejection of woke deviant leftism very personally. Many millions of people have just registered their loathing for the very policies the m0ron lives by. The fat sick little loser might need suicide counseling. Let’s not be too hasty in offering him any.

cohenite
November 7, 2024 8:27 pm

If you have not watched Letitia Jame’s statement regarding her responses to the election of Trump, do so.
Insane is an inadequate description. Fascist is closer, but still inadequate.

‘UTTER ARROGANCE’: NY AG skewered for ‘distasteful’ post-Trump-victory remarks

This scabrous black kunt really needs to be dealt with. I can imagine these state based lawfares against Trump continuing and this bitch sending around goons to arrest him.

johanna
johanna
November 7, 2024 8:37 pm

Recent headline at TheirABC:

Donald Trump may have just delayed your rate cut.

Some typical economist BS theory follows. It is not mismanagement at local level – Orange Man Bad!

I don’t know if anyone bothered to read the hit piece they put up this morning, repeating every Democrat talking point about how he is a sex offender and a criminal in other ways and a racist and so on.

Why, oh why, is nobody in the Coalition prepared to take them on in Estimates about their TDS?

They have manifestly lied about Trump for years, no question, and they go on doing it.

Still, if the ‘extra gunshots’ whitewash gets up, what hope is there?

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 7, 2024 9:01 pm
Reply to  johanna

Still, if the ‘extra gunshots’ whitewash gets up, what hope is there?

Stevens took full responsibility for that (pretty easy when you know there will be zero consequences of course). Still a question mark against Williams in my opinion.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 7, 2024 8:39 pm

Just on Fitzsimons – the mong who shacks up with the reptile. Who pretends he’s an author. You know, the bloke the French rugby team bashed the shit out of while his teammates cheered them on.

Anyway, saw him some years ago in the Virgin Lounge when he was in his weight loss phase looking like a cadaver in the vile Sydney Airport.

I’d arrived a bit early only then to find my flight delayed – so a bit chirpy from the complimentary plonk.

ME: “G’Day Pete”

HIM: “Hello”

ME: “Tell me, why do you wear a hankie on your head?”

He turned his head and ignored me which I thought was bit rude.

Lee
Lee
November 7, 2024 8:39 pm

The insane meltdown among leftist women in particular is classic and vastly amusing.

Trump is not going to stop you murdering your babies or pose as a threat to you.

I suggest consulting mental health specialists for all of them.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 7, 2024 8:46 pm
  1. The fat sick little loser might need suicide counseling. Let’s not be too hasty in offering him any.

Fie upon you for a heartless wretch. He should be told of all the slow but sure methods.

Makka
Makka
November 7, 2024 9:10 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

As long as he’s not dissuaded.

Rosie
Rosie
November 7, 2024 8:59 pm

CL’s site will disappear when his website name registration fee runs out, iirc that’s 2 years.

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
November 7, 2024 10:48 pm
Reply to  Rosie

screenshot from whois
site expires on 19/8/25

cl-site
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 7, 2024 8:59 pm

This ball hitting the ground appeals to my juvenile sense of humour.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/op2EJ3ZcSq4?feature=share

Carmichael
Carmichael
November 7, 2024 9:13 pm

Just on Fitzsimons – the mong who shacks up with the reptile. Who pretends he’s an author. You know, the bloke the French rugby team bashed the shit out of while his teammates cheered them on.

I’m not saying I’ve got anything against Peter FitzSimons. I’m just saying that watching the footage of him getting absolutely towelled by the French makes me want to stand up and sing the Marseillaise. He knows about as much as fighting as he does writing.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 7, 2024 9:22 pm
Reply to  Carmichael

It’s very good. You can almost see people thinking, “ Should I help him?”.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 7, 2024 9:16 pm

And yet the Sydney Morning Vomit employed him

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 7, 2024 9:17 pm

Does Wilcox still ‘draw’ for that publication?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 7, 2024 9:27 pm

According to PJ Media the numbers are:-
Presidential election final – Trump 312; Kamal-toe 226.
Senate (in progress, 51 for majority) – Republicans 52; Dimocrats 45; undecided 3.
House (in progress, 218 for majority) – Republicans 212; Dimocrats 197; undecided 26.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 8, 2024 8:30 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Fingers crossed. Senate is secure. House – almost certainly secure – Dimocrats need to get 22 of those 26 undecideds to make 219 and over the 218 majority line, they won’t do that on current voting patterns. Republicans only need to get seven of the 26 to make the 219. Should be aok.

However, all eyes on any steal here.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 7, 2024 9:35 pm

Reading Teh Paywallian US election wash ups (not an unbiased sample). Lot of “just like Albo” comments. I expect the Liars are in more trouble than they realise. The media drinking their bathwater leads to results like Wed.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 7, 2024 9:39 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Compulsory voting probably helps pollsters in Australia. And fewer demographics must help.

Indolent
Indolent
November 7, 2024 9:40 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 8, 2024 9:01 am
Reply to  Indolent

This provides an excellent overview for any friends who may be doubting lefties and wondering how and why this all happened.

Arky
November 7, 2024 9:43 pm

I may owe you ladies an apology.
The gender vote gap didn’t bite as much as predicted in the US election.
But I’ve still got my eye on you lot.
Watch yourselves.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 8, 2024 9:02 am
Reply to  Arky

Told you so. We’re not all airheads, not all of the time anyway. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 7, 2024 9:56 pm

H B Bear
 November 7, 2024 9:35 pm

Reading Teh Paywallian US election wash ups (not an unbiased sample). Lot of “just like Albo” comments. I expect the Liars are in more trouble than they realise. The media drinking their bathwater leads to results like Wed.

Plenty of Monday morning quarterbacking going on at their ABC about stuff which wasn’t so obvious two days ago.
I see Mrs Snowcone had a never-Trumper RINO on, and they were both wistfully reflecting on the era of moderate Republicans like Bush Snr, Reagan and McCain. Amazing that Bush and Reagan have morphed from literally Hitler to elder Statesmen.
And McCain? A loser who wouldn’t go quietly.
Apparently Kamal-toe ran a tip-top campaign but a 117 day campaign wasn’t enough.
She had four years exposure as VP but a rails run convention and a four month campaign with triple the budget of Trump-Hitler wasn’t enough?
Hard to explain why the more the public saw, the worse her numbers got.

Lysander
Lysander
November 7, 2024 10:07 pm

Amazing analysis on how Demonrats would’ve been better to not cheat in 2020 than now:

https://x.com/thedcshorts/status/1854246625235042717?s=46&t=TBTu6rLiQGJ84tMr30eGsw

In 2020, he didn’t have much power and still surrounded and advised by lots of establishments!

WolfmanOz
November 8, 2024 8:50 am
Reply to  Lysander

Actually he’s right.

Trump in 2024 is going to be considerably more formidable than if he has elected in 2020.

Cassie of Sydney
November 7, 2024 10:11 pm

reflecting on the era of moderate Republicans like Bush Snr, Reagan and McCain

Hysterical. I remember the 1980s, I remember how the left howled that Reagan would ignite World War III, and how Bush Snr and McCain were warmongers.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 7, 2024 11:19 pm

Yep. Not much love for Bush Snr back in the day.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 7, 2024 10:12 pm

Pauline Hanson’s fundraiser is a touch under 340,000 dollars.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 7:39 am

Excellent stuff.

Siltstone
Siltstone
November 8, 2024 10:00 am

I have donated. Very important this ridiculous judgement gets overturned.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 8, 2024 9:26 am
Reply to  Steve trickler

Expect to see a lot of these sorts of gussied up money-making vids emerging from the woodwork now. An original issue of Musk encountering some first reponders in a Makkas in East Palestine, Ohio (where the train crash was) and funding their equipment is turned into a breathless story of hero does a good deed, with footage taken from all over the place to fill in the breathless tale.

I don’t mind this, but it is hardly genuine reportage.

Zippster
Zippster
November 7, 2024 10:34 pm

Presidential election final – Trump 312;

hey hey hey ho ho ho

Digger
Digger
November 7, 2024 10:58 pm
Reply to  Zippster

I missed by one Nevada…

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 7, 2024 10:38 pm

…He should be told of all the slow but sure methods…

cheesegrater and rock salt?
?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 7, 2024 10:42 pm

The one thing I take from the election.
Humanities chance of becoming a multi planetary species with a whole solar systems worth of resources/ opportunities to exploit vs a Malthusian rationed load of plebs just soared.

If Trump had lost anyone think Musk wouldn’t have had SpaceX crippled?

Arky
November 7, 2024 10:44 pm

You’re a mole,
You’re not going anywhere.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 7, 2024 11:36 pm
Reply to  Arky

2 words for you.
Underground cities
Martian ones.
It will be beautiful
Believe me
Many such cases.

Cassie of Sydney
November 7, 2024 10:43 pm

Presidential election final – Trump 312;

And the popular vote, he’s won a thumping victory.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 7, 2024 11:38 pm
Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 8, 2024 1:42 am

Cassie @10:43 – “he’s won a thumping victory”

That he has.

And the Cackler, Shrillary, and The Five, especially that imbecile with half its head shaved, Whoopie, can deny it all they like, but they can’t escape the facts.

And here we’ve got Houso Upgrade Boy, Penny Ping Pong and the Rat Peering Through a Toilet Brush (h/t someone from the Cat) bowing and scraping hoping that the Donald doesn’t have a good memory – ha! he does.

Fun times ahead from the White House!

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
November 8, 2024 5:50 am
Reply to  Barking Toad

The View. The Five is a good show except that they still have Jessica and Harold.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 8, 2024 7:29 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

oops – correct

JC
JC
November 8, 2024 3:26 am
Barking Toad
Barking Toad
November 8, 2024 3:33 am
Reply to  JC

hahaha – loving to see the leftie pain

Beertruk
November 8, 2024 6:33 am
Reply to  JC

Blubbering kids when they don’t get what they want.

Bazinga
Bazinga
November 8, 2024 7:12 am
Reply to  JC

Poor girl needs help

Tom
Tom
November 8, 2024 4:04 am

Johannes Leak. Brilliant.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 8, 2024 9:28 am
Reply to  Tom

lol. Roadkill on the Trump Superhighway.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 8, 2024 9:30 am
Reply to  Tom

Leaks ability to caricature people might even be better than his father. Cats of a certain age may remember Mitchell’s Bustards of the Bush where members of the Hawke cabinet were drawn as various animals. Saturdays only from memory.

Tom
Tom
November 8, 2024 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
November 8, 2024 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
November 8, 2024 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
November 8, 2024 4:07 am
KevinM
KevinM
November 8, 2024 4:51 am

Who would’ve thought?

After all these years Paco is still around and posting interesting stuff.

Got hooked on a restoration vid he posted, being a tragic on those things.

(cleaning up my links I came across some long forgotten blogs, bloodnut blog is still there but not active, wonder how Kae is traveling? hope she is fine)

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 8, 2024 5:10 am

The huge support that Trump gained from Hispanic voters is arguably the most serious setback ever suffered by woke identity politics. The importance of this cannot be exaggerated. In recent decades, identity politics has become an integral component of elite ideology and a means for the managerial class to retain control over society. Until this election, the politics of identity has rarely been so seriously challenged.

The establishment feels betrayed by the people – spiked

Crossie
Crossie
November 8, 2024 7:19 am
Reply to  Miltonf

The establishment feels betrayed by the people? How about the people feel betrayed by the establishment.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 8, 2024 9:31 am
Reply to  Miltonf

Hispanics show how little they appreciate the influx of even more hispanics coming illegally over the border, undercutting the labour market, taking jobs at low wages. They also dislike the criminal element coming in, who taget local hispanics and in addition, dislike Democrat curbs on the small businesses this aspirational group want to start.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 8, 2024 9:38 am
Reply to  Miltonf

Australia right on trend giving Albo, QANTAS, Wesfarmers and Big Supermarket the arse at Voice time.

caveman
caveman
November 8, 2024 8:47 am
Reply to  Rosie

I had tears in my eyes that was soooo funny

KevinM
KevinM
November 8, 2024 5:31 am

I would sacrifice my firstborn, NO not really!!!, to have this in our kitchen.
The wife says no and that’s it.
I hate the induction cooktop we have now, and I do most of the cooking.

She can’t do a 3 minute egg fer God’s sake it’s either runny or hard as a brick .

stove
Pogria
Pogria
November 8, 2024 5:42 am
Reply to  KevinM

I have a Rayburn in my kitchen. I only use it in winter.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
November 8, 2024 5:57 am

The BBC: Biden will invite Trump to the White House for talks on the transition, a courtesy never extended by Trump to Biden back in 2020.

Biden was ok with the mysterious 20 million dodgy votes. He later used his proxies to try to lawfare Trump out of the race and preferably into jail. Joe was always ready to condemn conservatives as domestic terrorists, then finally “garbage”.

Nothing “courteous” about ol’ Joe.

Bazinga
Bazinga
November 8, 2024 6:41 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Red wedding?

Crossie
Crossie
November 8, 2024 7:20 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

He’s only doing it to sink the boot further into Kamala.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 8, 2024 9:33 am
Reply to  Crossie

That’s right. Expect to see Kamala frosted out of all things Presidential now. It will be Joe and Dr. Jill from now on, reclaiming Joe’s Presidency in its last stages, and doing all of the official things.

We won’t see much of Kamala at all, and surely we are not sorry about that.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
November 8, 2024 6:08 am

The BBC has its own ways to do a post-election meltdown, and while they are more subtle than the histrionics of the TV personalities in the USA, they are easily discernible.
Last night I heard them get Daron Acercoglu, a prominent economist, in fact a Nobel prize winner and Professor at Massachusetts MIT to comment on the comparative merits of Trump’s economic approaches versus those of Biden.
He was unequivocal in his statements that Biden’s economic policies yielded better results than Trump’s. I’ll leave it to others to determine whether the man is right or wrong, sound, or a brilliant but left leaning academic, however you have to say that the BBC can certainly pick them.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 8, 2024 9:44 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

The Exec Producers (who would have found that clown) wield the real power at the co-ops. Snowcone, Red Kezza, Frank Elly are really just the visible tip of the iceberg.

Hugh
Hugh
November 8, 2024 6:16 am

I hate the induction cooktop we have now

Me too.

She can’t do a 3 minute egg fer God’s sake it’s either runny or hard as a brick .

Had the same problem, but I have figured it out now. Put the eggs in a small saucepan with plenty of cold water. Cover and put on heat setting seven until the water just begins to boil, then boil for a further two minutes for perfect soft-boiled eggs.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 8:01 am
Reply to  Hugh

I cook eggs, and then eat them.
Sometimes they’re soft, sometimes they’re hard. Apart from some fussy people, I really can’t see the problem here.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 8, 2024 9:52 am
Reply to  Hugh

I was given a cooking lesson as birthday present one year. The studio was all induction cooktops with a gas wok ring. The instructor was very particular about the settings to be used. We had electricity growing up but I prefer the variability and flexibility of gas. There are a couple of good cookbooks that focus on temperatures and time and their influence on the result.

Gilas
Gilas
November 8, 2024 6:39 am

Gotta love all that Red!

(Was going to post this on the US Election thread, but it looks like it’s expired).

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 8, 2024 7:06 am
Reply to  Gilas

A county by county referendum on staying in or leaving the USA might have an archipelago of DemonRat mini-states leaving the US.

Last edited 3 months ago by Boambee John.
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 8:02 am
Reply to  Gilas

No, It’s still open…

caveman
caveman
November 8, 2024 8:51 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

…..for 4 years

Bungonia bee
Bungonia bee
November 8, 2024 6:44 am

A report at American Thinker by Monica Showalter refutes the theory that the Houthi backdown was fake news. The Trump effect is already at work.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/trump_wins_and_all_of_a_sudden_yemen_s_houthis_decide_to_bow_out_from_making_war_on_the_u_s_navy.html

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 8, 2024 6:45 am

Lets all party like it’s 1939.

Germany to enforce national service in drastic plan as ‘stupid’ Scholz prepares for WW3 (7 Nov)

Germany’s government has given the green light to a draft law that paves the way for the return of national service. …

The Bundeswehr currently has 180,000 soldiers, which it wants to increase to 203,000 by 2031, as well as 60,000 reservists.

The aim is to reach 200,000 more reservists, which would enable Germany to swiftly expand its troops to around 460,000 in the event of war.

Under the model proposed by the German government, all men turning 18 – which is estimated to be about 300,000 in 2025 – will have to fill out a digital survey on their interest in joining the army.

Young women will also be sent the survey but are not obliged to fill out the form.

It isn’t quite conscription since call up is to be voluntary for now. But when no one actually, like, volunteers I suspect it’ll become compulsory.

Bungonia bee
Bungonia bee
November 8, 2024 6:46 am

“I do not concede the fight that fuelled this campaign.”
Translation: the left, like rust, never sleeps.

Chris
Chris
November 8, 2024 4:48 pm
Reply to  Bungonia bee

The Left, like anthrax, never sleeps.

Last edited 3 months ago by Chris
Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 8, 2024 6:50 am

Del in trouble again in Sydney this time:

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-great-wendell-sailor-charged-over-sydney-bar-assault/news-story/394f38b2284e02256fa53676a2f821ea

S$#@ defender but devastating in attack in his younger days. IMO should never have got a Wallabies cap as he was past it but they were obviously looking for crowds.

One thing surprised his mrs stuck around so long, was known to have a wandering eye and know one girl who thought he was sleazy. Funny saw him out in Flinders st east when the Bronco’s played in NQ heaps but never saw him as the belligerent type.

Maybe he was hitting on someone’s mrs.

Rosie
Rosie
November 8, 2024 6:52 am
Last edited 3 months ago by Rosie
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 8, 2024 6:54 am

STILL NOT MY PERSIDENT!!!

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
November 8, 2024 6:54 am

Shock! Horror! CO2 emissions from private planes soar!
Gee, thanks Sky News. Did you forget to blame Trump for the increase in the Earth’s “Average” Temperature over the next few years?

MatrixTransform
November 8, 2024 6:59 am

I hate the induction cooktop we have now

I actually love the induction as an appliance
would prefer gas but that wasn’t an option

we bought a Siemens induction 4.99 years ago with a 5 year warranty and woke up about 6 weeks ago at 4am to find the cooktop brain-dead.

after much argy-bargy they accepted that replacing it under warranty was the go.

thing is they don’t make the smart model with the touchscreen anymore.
they only make a slightly dumber version of it.

they reckon they never evah had problems with our model … but they no longer make it, sell it, or have any replacement parts for it.

like it never even existed.

anyway, indoors today and the Oven Repair Man is coming at 0900 with the new but dumber replacement

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 8, 2024 7:06 am

The question is Matrix, since it is the dumber version, will you be able to use it?

Rosie
Rosie
November 8, 2024 7:01 am

“Republican-funded polling is simply not credible; the presidential race will be nail-bitingly close”
Sasha did a Monty.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/gop-backed-arizona-polls-have-it-wrong/

P
P
November 8, 2024 7:03 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 8, 2024 7:06 am

“Boiled” egg.
Air fryer.
160 deg.
Nine minutes.
I put egg #1 in.
At 4.5 minutes put egg #2 in.
At nine minutes take egg #1 out and eat it. Perfect runny centre.
At 13.5 minutes take egg #2 out and eat it. Also perfeck.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 8, 2024 7:13 am

Rosie
 November 8, 2024 7:01 am

“Republican-funded polling is simply not credible; the presidential race will be nail-bitingly close”

The GOP “rigged” poll had Orange Man up by 7%.
He is currently up by 52.3% to 46.8%.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 8, 2024 7:16 am

Funny how judgements like this manage to somehow come out on the day after the election.

Musk Wins Again: Federal Appeals Court Upholds No-Fraud Verdict In Tesla Tweets Case (8 Nov)

Still it’s a big win, since if they’d found him guilty he’d be up for multiple tens of billions between actual and punitive damages.

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 8, 2024 7:28 am

Cassie: I remember the 1980s, I remember how the left howled that Reagan would ignite World War III, and how Bush Snr and McCain were warmongers.

The possibility of Reagan becoming President was treated with the same derision and horror as with Trump.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 8:18 am
Reply to  Eyrie

Yes, they just relabeled the 45 rpm record and put it on 78 rpm.
Jeez. Who remembers 45 EP records?

calli
calli
November 8, 2024 7:30 am

Rosie, I loved that article! A must-read, Cats if just for the peppering of sly and not-so-sly wit.

I haven’t heard the term “cut glass tones” for ages. More of the same please Brendan.

132andBush
132andBush
November 8, 2024 7:30 am

It’s fair to say that the Telstra mobile network in regional areas is not fit for purpose, especially wrt data.

Crossie
Crossie
November 8, 2024 7:32 am

Bungonia Bee

 November 8, 2024 6:54 am

Shock! Horror! CO2 emissions from private planes soar!

I wouldn’t be surprised if Albo accounted for a fair bit of it seeing as he now has two planes at his disposal.

We will be told shortly that to even things out the hoi polloi flights will need to be scheduled back to allow for more private planes of the rich, super rich and the vacuous. Sacrifices must be made, doncha know.

Zippster
Zippster
November 8, 2024 7:33 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 8, 2024 7:34 am

I do hope Trump doesn’t start calling Elon Musk “Rocket Man”.

Tom
Tom
November 8, 2024 8:00 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Thanks, Sancho. First laugh out loud for the day!

Crossie
Crossie
November 8, 2024 8:28 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Elton John already has a song for him.

Cassie of Sydney
November 8, 2024 7:35 am

In the style of that climactic scene from GoT, where a group of Night Watchmen take turns to stab Jon Snow, each man stating their reason for stabbing Snow as they each took a turn to plunge the dagger into his beating heart, this week’s thumping victory by Donald Trump, a victory of both the electoral college and popular vote, is the righteous plunging of daggers by ordinary American men and women, mainly middle and working class Americans, be they Latino, Black, White, Jew, Arab, Christians (particularly demonised conservative Christians) into the rotten beating hearts of the corrupt MSM, the anti-American academia, Hollyweird, the venal Demonrats, the Obummas, the DoJ, the WEF, UN, Iran, Hamas and it’s for four years of….

Wussiagate
Impeachment 1
Impeachment 2
Covid
the 2020 insurrection (the real insurrection)
and the endless attempts by the corrupt MSM, DNC and others to ‘get Trump’ and to ‘get’ those on the Trump train.

On Tuesday this week, the American people returned the favour, and how sweet it is.

And whilst this is trivial and shallow, you all might have seen how Trump’s splendid family assembled around him on the podium the other night, and you might have noticed the strong, fabulous, gutsy, and intelligent Trump women, from Melania to Ivanka to Tiffany to Lara, and you might have noticed how ALL these Trump women are drop dead gorgeous and each one could grace a fashion magazine, you know, like Vogue or Elle.

If anything shows just how corrupt and base the US media has become, American Vogue is perhaps one of the most rotten and venally corrupt of them all, under the absolutely tortured control of the hideous, freakish, nightmarish, far-left vampire Anna Wintour. Wintour has used her stewardship of Vogue USA to push her far-left politics. I know, it’s bizarre, a magazine pushing far-left radical woke politics and high end expensive fashion. It’s precisely this kind of hypocrisy that makes me yearn for a good old fashioned revolution to deal with such elite scum.

But I digress, the long tradition by American Vogue is for a new FLOTUS to be given both a splashy spread in the magazine and be put on the cover. Jill Biden got a cover back in early 2021, and since then Jill has graced the cover once or twice more. And before Mrs Biden, the utterly repulsive Michelle Obumma was given more than a few Vogue covers.

But there’s one FLOTUS who was never put on the cover, yes that’s right…Mrs Trump, Melania Trump, the former top fashion model, the former super model. American Vogue under Wintour refused to put Melania on the cover of Vogue whilst she was FLOTUS. Why? Because she was and is married to Donald Trump. In 2021, after she’d left the WH, Melania Trump said……

Vogue is “biased,”: “They have likes and dislikes, and it’s so obvious.”

“I think American people and everyone sees it,”. “It was their decision, and I have much more important things to do, and I did in the White House than being on the cover of Vogue.”

True, but principles are always important, consistency is always important, fairness is always important and being unbiased is always important. But Melania is having the last laugh, the American people are having the last laugh and this week Americans, on behalf of Melania, also plunged a dagger deep into the putrid calcified heart of the vile Anna Wintour and her rotten shallow magazine.

I suspect Melania Trump is smiling and what a gorgeous smile she has.

Maman
Maman
November 8, 2024 7:52 am

YES!!!!!!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 8, 2024 7:37 am

I have been doing “Trump campaign dancing” for two days.
The requests to stop are becoming quite earnest.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 8, 2024 8:00 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Stop dancing like Elaine Benes.

Pogria
Pogria
November 8, 2024 8:12 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Oh, the humanity!

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 8, 2024 7:41 am

Humanities chance of becoming a multi planetary species with a whole solar systems worth of resources/ opportunities to exploit vs a Malthusian rationed load of plebs just soared.
If Trump had lost anyone think Musk wouldn’t have had SpaceX crippled?

He might have had to do a deal take his people to Kazakhstan. Imagine launching Starships from near the pads where Yuri rode his rocket into history
Anyone have Kazakhstan owning the riches of the Solar System on their bingo card?
Maybe the basis for a nice little alternate history SF story now.

Beertruk
November 8, 2024 7:42 am

Today’s Tele:

FOLLOW THE DONALD AND MAKE AUSTRALIA GREAT AGAIN

TIM BLAIR
8 Nov 2024

Donald Trump has changed the way politics works.

He has proved that conventional assessments of electoral risk and gain no longer apply.

Trump has done this by taking his ideas straight to voters rather than filtering them through focus groups or committees, or by depending on endorsements from elite media.

His stunningly successful 2024 election campaign provides dramatic evidence that old-fashioned direct democracy is an awesome force.

No easily intimidated, safety-first, climate-frightened politician – which these days is almost every politician on earth – would ever call for, as Trump did at his Republican National Convention in July, hugely expanded fossil fuel mining.

“I will lower the cost of energy,” Trump said. “We will drill, baby, drill.”

For that, Trump was pilloried by all the usual media nancies.

But so what? He’s already been vilified for nearly a decade throughout the US and internationally as a Nazi, a fascist, a rapist, an appeaser of tyrants and a threat to planetary survival.

And none of it mattered. All of the hysteria from the tradition leftist media and from leftist social media – to be clear, they often overlap – didn’t matter at all.

Donald J. Trump’s re-election as US president is proof that nanny state screamers and their craven press enablers have lost their power.

They went all in on Trump and got absolutely smashed. They were beaten by a guy armed only with a glow tan and a brilliant idea: That regulatory tyranny and the imposition of elite cultural attitudes are poisonous to a free people.

Which brings us to Australia, where we are absolutely dominated by excessive regulations and can’t make a joke without being binned.

Anthony Albanese has previously said that Trump “scares the shit out of me”. He’s right to be scared. In fact, Albanese’s entire party and the global leftist bureaucracy should be scared.

Modern leftist power is based on myths and lies. It is dependent on perverse weather beliefs, psychologically corrupting racial and cultural theories and witless anti-Western self-loathing.

Very conveniently for our leftist friends, all of these things somehow always end up requiring bigger and more intrusive government.

That’s the dull, grey, suffocating, tax-dependent and obscenely overpaid world of Albo and his crew. They are exactly of a piece with the Washington DC swamp dwellers Trump has vowed to remove.

(Speaking of whom, pro-Trump US tech guy Bill D’Agostino made a wonderful observation and a wonderful video to go with it: “When you use AI to replace every mention of ‘our democracy’ with ‘our bureaucracy’, everything starts to make a lot more sense.”)

The opportunity for Liberal leader Peter Dutton is to run with Trump’s momentum. Why only aim for nuclear power when Australia is rich to bursting with every other proven and cheap energy source?

Trump rightly boasts of his own nation’s extraordinary underground wealth, which he seeks to liberate during his belated second term: “We have more liquid gold – oil and gas – we have more liquid gold than any country in the world.”

We need to join this ride. To hell with the scolds and the wimps, the haters and the losers.

Drill, Australia, drill.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 8, 2024 7:43 am
Rabz
November 8, 2024 8:51 am
Reply to  lotocoti

Note perfect.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 8, 2024 7:46 am

the righteous plunging of daggers by ordinary American men and women, mainly middle and working class Americans, be they Latino, Black, White, Jew, Arab, Christians (particularly demonised conservative Christians)

Someone posted one of the most delicious of all here yesterday. In the critical state of Pennsylvania the normally dis-engaged Amish got out to vote in big numbers for Trump.
Why?
Well, a bunch of Dimocrat bureaucrats started badgering them over selling unpasteurised milk. This had nothing to do with food standards and everything to do with harassment of conservative Christians.
The test would be to ask how much investigation these food standards Nazis have done into the backyard slaughter of goats by another demographic.

calli
calli
November 8, 2024 7:51 am

Biden will invite Trump to the White House for talks on the transition, a courtesy never extended by Trump to Biden back in 2020.

In 2020, Covid was still the New Hotness, perhaps the BBC has forgotten. In addition there were waves of reports of voting irregularities to sift through, and possibilities that those irregularities had swung the vote and could be remedied by legal means. Despite the clearly (now) bogus “popular” vote, key counties swung the college by small margins.

No one, even now, wants to got there. Hopefully the new administration can clear the deck and give the American people what they deserve – free and fair elections with proper scrutiny at the polling booth.

Casting my mind back to 2020, the place had erupted in turmoil, with Antifa running riot, the BLM goons race baiting, every rent a crowd of malcontents making like impossible for normal working people. Murder and mayhem, arson, civil disorder.

As for Biden playing “nice” and wanting to tone down the rhetoric – what actually happened during this campaign? Trump got shot, and one man sitting behind him died.

As for the transition and recalling 2016, Trump might like to start with surly White House staff. Out with the old and in with the new.

Zippster
Zippster
November 8, 2024 7:53 am
calli
calli
November 8, 2024 7:54 am

Poor old bitter and twisted Fan Club. Suffer in your jocks.

*does Trump dance while making another coffee*

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 9:18 am
Reply to  calli

That’s OK for you lot who have that gift called coordination.
I don’t.
But I’ve perfected the “Trump Stumble and Fall”.

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 8, 2024 7:55 am
Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
November 8, 2024 8:00 am

Sky continues to insult its viewers by having Airhead Steggall on.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 8, 2024 8:04 am

Wanting to purchase a MAGA cap or 45-47 thing, Googled and scrolled down a bit.
Came across this link to Reddit. Good Lord are they taking it well.

Cassie of Sydney
November 8, 2024 8:06 am

Please watch Pauline’s latest ‘Please Explain’…………

Lefties Losing It | Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZi36NYmH6s

shatterzzz
November 8, 2024 8:13 am

When an exclamation mark is useful .. LOL!

Crocs
alwaysright
alwaysright
November 8, 2024 8:15 am

Quiet here.

Hangovers?

Too much wine, too much beer, I can get my arse in gear

Coco Montoya

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 8, 2024 8:22 am

Anthony Albanese has previously said that Trump “scares the shit out of me”.

Bad Penny gets her chance to squirm today.

‘Prepared to trash alliances’: Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s damning assessment of Donald Trump resurfaces (Sky News, 7 Nov)

Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s resurfaced assessment of United States President-elect Donald Trump appears set to generate further scrutiny over how the Albanese government will navigate one of the nation’s most important international relationships. …

In Australia, the Albanese government has already faced scrutiny over US Ambassador Kevin Rudd’s previous comments about Trump, including suggestions the President-elect was a “traitor”.

…the Foreign Minister divulged her own, frank, assessment of Trump. “We’ve seen somebody – a leader – in recent times who was prepared to trash alliances and partnerships for personal political interest and his name was Donald Trump,” she said.

Fortunately for these people they’re likely to lose the upcoming election, so the damage will not be too bad.

Beertruk
November 8, 2024 8:28 am

The Paywallion yesterday:

The Mocker: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese just a working (business) class man
The Mocker
7 Nov 2024

Working hard on getting upgrades
He loves the front end of the plane
A father/son in this carry-on
Hey Albo please explain
‘Cause it don’t seem to me you’re a working-class man
Well he insists ‘Hey, I’m a houseo’
He’s a legend in his mind
He talks of his privations
With his first-class seat reclined
Moët, canapes for this working-class man.
Believes in flying often
He gets out when he can
He never flies in economy
He just rings his mate Alan
He’s a shallow and entitled man
Always putting out his hand
So – he’s no working-class man
Well he loves his little woman
Someday he’ll make his wife
And together with his young bloke
They have the Chairman’s Lounge for life
He ain’t worried about fare prices
Because he just made up his mind
A sweetheart deal means he will forever
Travel first-class for a dime
Oh, oh, oh, oh, there’s your working-class man
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
He’ll tell you he’s a working-class man!

Apropos of Albo – have you ever called former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce personally to seek an upgrade for your flights? It would take most of us around two seconds to reply. But for Anthony Albanese, it is a most complex question.

Actually, I would go further and say in Albanese’s case it is one of the most complicated questions he has ever faced. In terms of complexity it is up there with “Have you ever won an Olympic gold medal” or “Did you ever go on a date with Christie Brinkley” or “Have you ever done a swan dive from the Empire State Building”.

But as Albanese would tell you, he is not afraid of the big questions. He just prefers the media ask him sensible ones related to his line of work as he sees it. You know, something like “What is Toto’s favourite snack” or “How did it feel when you discovered your chip packet had more air than crisps”.

Speaking last week in Newcastle, he refused to share his expertise in airfare alchemy. That was a pity, because as someone who has no love for cattle class, I was eager to hear how he managed to bag at least 22 free upgrades on economy tickets when he held the transport portfolio. Was it because Joyce is fundamentally decent, kind, and generous? Had Albanese woken one morning to find first-class tickets in the bottom of his Christmas stocking? Or did he earn these upgrades by scrubbing down Qantas A380 windshields in between parliamentary sittings?

Asked whether he had prevailed upon Joyce, Albanese was both erratic and evasive. He lashed out at Peter Dutton, claiming the Opposition Leader was targeting his family. He carried on with endless whataboutism. He even attacked former Fin Review journalist Joe Aston, author of The Chairman’s Lounge: The Inside Story of How Qantas Sold Us Out and source of these allegations. Typical to form, Albanese did everything except answer the question.

At that time of that unedifying display, three days had passed since the Sydney Morning Herald had run with Aston’s exposé. You would think Albanese would have been across at least some of the details by the time of that press conference.

But instead he committed a major howler in insinuating Aston had failed to declare to his readers that he was a former Liberal staffer and that he had worked for Qantas. Taking to social media, an exasperated Aston pointed out he had disclosed both in the first line of the book’s first page. Even someone with Albanese’s attention span should have picked that up.

It took nearly a week for Albanese – this time through a spokesperson – to say in a carefully worded statement he “did not ever call Alan Joyce seeking an upgrade,” thus kicking off a game of 20 questions.

As recently as this Monday, he was dancing around questions as to whether any of his office staff had sought upgrades from Qantas on his behalf. Given the length of Albanese’s nose, you could be excused for thinking the Concorde had been resurrected.

We need not worry though, at least according to Albanese. As he has anxiously and repeatedly insisted, he has declared every single one of these upgrades. No problem then, right?

Wrong. Merely declaring these ‘gifts’ does not absolve a minister of their responsibility to avoid conflicts of interest, whether real or apparent, in the first place. While some of these situations cannot be avoided, they must still be managed in a transparent and acceptable manner.

But instead of taking steps to minimise the potential for conflicts of interest, Albanese did the opposite. It was not a case of his reluctantly accepting upgrades but rather wallowing in them. Forget the pub test and think instead the public office test. It is one he has failed and badly at that.

Take several examples from when Albanese was transport minister, a portfolio which included responsibility for regulating the airline industry, in the Rudd and Gillard governments. July 2009: upgrade to business class from Qantas on Sydney to Los Angeles return flights. April 2010: “ticket upgrade” for Albanese and son on Sydney to Rome return flights on Emirates. July 2011: Albanese “accepted upgrades from Emirates travelling unofficially to and from Europe”. December 2012: upgraded to Qantas business class on the Honolulu to Sydney flight.

The above examples involved personal travel. As Aston dryly notes, “It would be a safe presumption that he [Albanese] paid for an economy ticket in the full knowledge he would never have to set foot in that unholy cabin”.

To think at the time Albanese, in real terms, was on a taxpayer-funded salary of $400k. His then wife, Carmel Tebbutt, was NSW deputy premier for much of that period and paid the equivalent of $350k a year. For Albanese to hoover up freebies in those circumstances was, at the very least, the behaviour of a bludger.

And contrary to his claims, Albanese was not open and transparent in disclosing benefits. For example, he neglected in some cases to detail the type of upgrade, an omission that all but confirms he leapfrogged straight from economy to first-class. Neither did he disclose that Joyce, allegedly at Albanese’s request last year, had provided his son Nathan with Chairman’s Lounge membership.

One of the many unanswered questions in Qantas’s duchessing of Albanese concerns his government’s kyboshing last year of an application by Qatar Airways to double its weekly flights to Australia’s four major cities.

At the time of Qatar’s application in 2022, its competitor Qantas had slashed its number of post-Covid flights while charging Australians exorbitant prices for existing (and as it turned out non-existing) ones. Naturally, Qantas did not welcome Qatar’s application. But as Aston details, the Department of Infrastructure and Transport supported the proposal, as did Trade Minister Don Farrell and (initially) Transport Minister Catherine King. Why she later did a volte-face has never been explained satisfactorily.

Asked in parliament in September 2023 whether he or his office had provided “any direction, information or advice” to King to block the application, Albanese responded with his customary weasel words.

“This was a decision to change nothing that occurred, and one of the things that I do, as Prime Minister, is not appoint myself to other jobs,” he said. “I trust my ministers to make decisions.”

Initially, according to King, ‘her’ decision to block Qatar’s application was in the “national interest”. Presumably, it is also in the national interest to reward Qantas or more specifically Joyce, whether it be for price gouging passengers, depriving of them their entitlements through labyrinthine processes, sacking thousands of workers unlawfully, and treating Australians with contempt.

Admittedly that decision was detrimental for thousands of would-be travellers, many of whom are flat out paying for a ticket in economy, let alone one at the pointy end of the plane. But let us not forget priorities, people. It is in the national interest for the prime ministerial tush to be resting comfortably on a first-class cushion when his nibs is holidaying.

Designer bedding, gourmet dining, fine wines, luxury toiletries, the thrill of exclusivity and hobnobbing it with the rich and famous – bring it on. But as Albanese has belatedly discovered, it includes everything except a parachute.

The Mocker
The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour. Believing that journalism is dominated by idealists and activists, he likes to provide a realist’s perspective of politics and current affairs.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 8, 2024 8:29 am
Indolent
Indolent
November 8, 2024 8:31 am
Indolent
Indolent
November 8, 2024 8:32 am

Just take a look at her.

@CollinRugg

This is “political analyst” & former poly-sci professor Dr. Arlene who brainwashed hundreds of thousands of people on TT into thinking Harris would win.

On Nov 5th, she told a story about how she taunted a grocery store worker about how Harris was 100% going to win

On Nov 6th, she said her “data” couldn’t account for all the racism and misogyny which is why Harris lost

These are the people who are teaching at our universities.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 8, 2024 9:34 am
Reply to  Indolent

She has never taught. Repeat after me, indoctrination.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 9:45 am
Reply to  Indolent

A smug and arrogant “Servant of the People”. Just not our people – her people.

bons
bons
November 8, 2024 8:40 am

Youtube currenty has up a video of one of the more viscious White House press conferences of Trump’s first presidency.

It is timely. We have all forgotten the arrogant, sneering, threatening behaviour of those press animals.

The Press Secretaries were heroes. Both McEnany and especially Sanders must be quivering in anticipation of payback.

I may be wrong but I feel that that era is gone. The MSM no longer have the capacity or public support to undertake a continuous coup. Sure, NYT and Warpo will try but they are now yesterday’s people. The most they achieve is to provide talking points for other irrelevant commentators.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 9:48 am
Reply to  bons

Please Bons, a link por favor?

Last edited 3 months ago by Winston Smith
Indolent
Indolent
November 8, 2024 8:40 am

TIME swallows its gorge.
How Trump Won

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 8, 2024 8:51 am
Reply to  Indolent

Suck it up Time. High school drivel.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 8, 2024 10:03 am
Reply to  alwaysright

TIME was a joke when we were in high school in the 80s. Since joined by the Ecommunist and many others. At least the Bulletin had the decency to just die.

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
November 8, 2024 11:42 am
Reply to  Indolent

The last lines in that article are so sweet.

He will enter his second term committed to creating a governing environment with few restraints on his power. He did not hide any of this. It was what the American people decided they wanted. 

Whether the author understood the truth of what it wrote is debatable.

Indolent
Indolent
November 8, 2024 8:42 am
Crossie
Crossie
November 8, 2024 8:43 am

pro-Trump US tech guy Bill D’Agostino made a wonderful observation and a wonderful video to go with it: “When you use AI to replace every mention of ‘our democracy’ with ‘our bureaucracy’, everything starts to make a lot more sense.”

I saw that and it was absolutely brilliant as those people had no problem with actual fascism on their side. The fun factor was a bonus.

The same trick should be applied to all those people who spout “my democracy” or “my truth”. For truth just swap in “my lies”. Actually the “my truth” canard is not used as much as it had been. Has it fallen out of favour for something else? Is “my democracy” that other thing?

Indolent
Indolent
November 8, 2024 8:44 am
Last edited 3 months ago by Indolent
Crossie
Crossie
November 8, 2024 9:05 am
Reply to  Indolent

Who knew there was a language called Normalese? No wonder they don’t speak it.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 9:50 am
Reply to  Indolent

Of course she does.
That’s because she’s fat and ugly, and thinks it will turn her into a gorgeous Republican Goddess.

Rabz
November 8, 2024 8:45 am

Talk about not getting it:

Ann Selzer* explains why her very wrong Iowa poll may have helped Fatty Trump

Remember, this was mUttley’s go to pollster.

Impeccable logic – collectivist crackpot gets a prediction about the future massively wrong (as they invariably do) and in this case helps Fatty Trump and the Wussians steal Iowa, because reasons.

What a joke.

*Won’t post the link because it’s paywalled

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 8, 2024 8:48 am

The f-wits on show continues.

Fabulous stuff.

Mark Dice:

Feminist Meltdowns Over 2024 Election Are Getting Worse!

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 11:56 am
Reply to  Steve trickler

This is almost unbelievable. Islam is right about women.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 12:02 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

These women are nuts! In fact, they need to be put into protective custody.

I put a link on Spacechook, and they’ve threatened to delete it.
Hahaha!
Delete, baby, delete. Show how much you care about women’s mental health!

P
P
November 8, 2024 8:53 am

Trump Wins: Let the Work Begin
Crisis Magazine – Nov 6.

Zippster
Zippster
November 8, 2024 8:55 am

Donald Trump ‘acted like a man’, says Putin

0:00 I’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate him 0:02 on being elected as President 0:03 of the United States of America. I’ve already said 0:05 that we will work with any head of state 0:09 whom the American people trust. That will indeed 0:11 be true in practice as well. You know, 0:13 you can view him in any way you want. 0:15 In his first presidential term, 0:17 many initially said he was mainly 0:20 a businessman, and didn’t understand much 0:22 about politics and might make mistakes. 0:26 Well, first of all, I can tell you that his 0:30 behavior during the attempt on his life 0:33 left an impression on me. I don’t know, but 0:36 to me, it showed he’s a courageous person. 0:39 It’s not only 0:45 about the raised hand and the call to fight 0:48 for their shared ideals. It’s not only that, 0:51 although that’s certainly striking. 1:00 Under extraordinary circumstances, 1:04 this is where a person shows their true self, and he did. 1:06 In my view, he responded in a very 1:10 appropriate way, 1:11 courageously, like a man deserving of trust.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 8, 2024 9:25 am
Reply to  Zippster

The World has become a safer place.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 12:04 pm
Reply to  Zippster

Hey, Zipster, can you tidy up the Wall O’Words before you put it up?

Tom
Tom
November 8, 2024 8:57 am

From Cassie’s excellent post at 7.35am:

[Anna] Wintour has used her stewardship of Vogue USA to push her far-left politics. I know, it’s bizarre, a magazine pushing far-left radical woke politics and high end expensive fashion.

It’s not a bizarre observation at all. Leftism is a fashion, a rigidly enforced groupthink from which no-one is allowed to dissent and from which dissenters are expelled.

Leftism is fashion for fascists.

Lefties live and die by how fashionable they are and their preoccupation is how others see them – hence all the virtue-signalling.

You see it everywhere – from the online groupthink to the virtue-signallers driving their little Tesla golf carts.

They’re so much better than you and laughing at them triggers an explosion of rage.

All you have to do to be a lefty is to think like all the other lefties – with an implied threat of violence against dissenters.

That is why lefties hate freedom: it is an affront to the inner fascist that every lefty grooms like a large black cat.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 8, 2024 9:22 am
Reply to  Tom

Only have to look at the fat freak hiding in his basement. Having influence over the Milko’s kids is criminal.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 8, 2024 8:57 am

I strongly suspect that right about now, there are a number of portly, fumbly Secret Service wimmin frantically perusing Seek.com.

Their feelgood ‘safe space’ management have, in all likelihood, already put the feelers out and landed university lecturer gigs in California and Vermont.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 8, 2024 9:20 am

The Don should put an ad in the papers for a SS director.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 8, 2024 8:58 am

Karine Jean-Pierre lauding and rationalising a massive electoral failure.
How she keeps a straight face is amazing.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 12:21 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

She be a dyke. If anyone is confused about their sexuality, they are even more confused about politics.

bons
bons
November 8, 2024 12:42 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

It’s a bott.

Indolent
Indolent
November 8, 2024 8:58 am
alwaysright
alwaysright
November 8, 2024 9:12 am
Reply to  Indolent

Can you post the text of this?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 8, 2024 9:18 am
Reply to  alwaysright

Txt came up for me

Indolent
Indolent
November 8, 2024 9:21 am
Reply to  alwaysright

@elonmusk

For anyone, whether in America or other countries, who finds this result shocking, they should reconsider where they get their information.

This trend was obvious on ? for months, but almost all the legacy mainstream media pushed a completely false reality.

They lied to you.

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 8, 2024 9:28 am
Reply to  Indolent

Thank you.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 8, 2024 11:48 am
Reply to  Indolent

The loss of twitter support for the Dems after Musk bought it, and a relatively more even-handed approach by Facebook after they admitted to 2020 censorship, is a uuuuge factor in allowing American voters to think for themselves.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 8, 2024 9:16 am

I’ve been going to cardio rehab for the last 2 weeks. Out of ten people only a lady and myself are not diabetics. Half of them are obese. Is this normal amongst Cat acquaintances. One is facing death every day. His heart is so clogged nothing short of a transplant can fix him. I asked him how his family is taking it. Not as well as himself.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 8, 2024 9:20 am
Rabz
November 8, 2024 9:23 am

the hideous, freakish, nightmarish, far-left vampire anna wintour

Another inspiration for the fashion mag slag hags in AbFab.

will
will
November 8, 2024 9:56 am
Reply to  Rabz

I thought AbFab was mocking the vacuous fashion chicks

Rabz
November 8, 2024 10:16 am
Reply to  will

Edie and Patsy “worked” for a fashion mag.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 8, 2024 10:45 am
Reply to  Rabz

Ha ha. I volunteered to act as a volunteer driver for WA Fashion Week to help a friend out. Ended up with a Mercedes loan van full of freaks and gaysians,

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 8, 2024 9:27 am

Thanks Indolent.

@elonmusk

For anyone, whether in America or other countries, who finds this result shocking, they should reconsider where they get their information.

This trend was obvious on X for months, but almost all the legacy mainstream media pushed a completely false reality.

They lied to you.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 8, 2024 9:27 am

I see the Oz now has The Don on 295 and the Cackler on 226.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
November 8, 2024 9:29 am

I’m usually a bit slow on the uptake, so apologies to Cats that already know.

When I was a teenager, I started to read a book. I got distracted and didn’t get far into it. Now, about 40 years later, I’ve nearly finished it (a few pages to go).

I read something in the book that may have some significance to our blog master.

It is a poem titled, “Dover Beach,” by Matthew Arnold and read out by the hero, Guy Montag.

Sci-fi Cats would probably already know the book and its sad but apt parallels with the world today: “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury.

I’ll leave it to Dover to agree or disagree, or indeed to not respond at all.

But in his honour, for running a free-speech blog, here is the poem:

Dover BeachBy Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

In light of the Misinformation Bill, this is apt.

Thanks for the blog Dover.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 8, 2024 9:31 am

Beertruk
 November 8, 2024 7:42 am

Today’s Tele:

FOLLOW THE DONALD AND MAKE AUSTRALIA GREAT AGAIN

TIM BLAIR

I caught a snippet of ScoMo on Skah News on election day.
Triumphant at the growing prospect of a Trump win and effusive in his praise.
It didn’t seem to occur to him that if he had, just once or twice, emulated Trump he might not have gone out backwards.
For example, not issuing a snivelling apology for a flimsy allegation of rape which was before the courts.
Or perhaps, when attacked over a holiday in Hawaii he could have counter-attacked the journo for playing politics in the middle of a bushfire crisis.
What would Donald do?

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 8, 2024 10:50 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

SloMo (and most of the Lieborals) are not the Donald. Professional politicians cowering in front of preselection committees. SloMo sent people under the bus possibly faster than anyone in recent memory.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 8, 2024 9:32 am

GreyRanga

Without knowing the ages of the other people (Im assuming over 60’s mainly) diabetes gets to be a normal part of aging in many, many cases.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/prediabetes-diagnosis-as-an-older-adult-what-does-it-really-mean-202106142481

Though having your heart pumping gravy doesnt help.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
November 8, 2024 10:21 am

Diabetes has become an industry, sadly.re are some amazing stories on online blogs about people who have come off all their diabetes drugs just by changing their diet.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 8, 2024 11:54 am

Two years ago I was diagnosed as “pre-diabetic” and given stern warnings.
I changed my diet to low carb, high fat, and lots of carnivore meals.
I increased my exercise frequency and intensity.
It only took 3 months for the new diet to move all blood indicators to normal range and for the weight to start dropping off.
I’m pleased with the outcome.

Vicki
Vicki
November 8, 2024 12:23 pm

Thanks for that article. I knew that most of folks in western countries over 70 have what is classed today as “prediabetes”. I havnt taken much notice of this as the medical industry progressively make the cutoff figures of various metabolic conditions lower so that Big Pharma can make their required profits.

But this article cites research that doesn’t surprise me viz those “prediabetics” over 70 rarely go on to be medically “diabetic”.

Surprise, surprise.

Zippster
Zippster
November 8, 2024 11:34 am
Reply to  dover0beach

seriously who believes the numbers out of china???

Entropy
Entropy
November 8, 2024 12:41 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

yes that narrative is suss, but I would not trust cheese figures. It always amazes me how it take the ABS up to three months after the end of the quarter to come up with GDP figures (eg June 24 quarter national accounts released 4 Sept), whereas monolithic China can do it in five days.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 8, 2024 9:42 am

See some chat above about induction stove tops and oven repairs.

Leads me to say beware of modern appliances. Our Miele dishwasher carked it recently, just out of warranty. Mr. Miele arrived to see what was wrong, didn’t touch the innards, simply got out his computer and .. get this … logged on to our dishwasher!!! He did some adjustments via his computer talking to this recalcitrant machine, and told us it should be fixed now, if not, well, two thousand bucks would get us a new one.

Erk.

It wouldn’t work for the first go we had with it after The Man had gone. Both fed up, we left it flashing its previous ‘in distress’ code numbers. Lo and behold, two hours later it had sorted itself out computer-wise and it was merrilly washing dishes like a new dishwasher. Hmm.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 8, 2024 9:46 am

Two hundred bucks for the callout has been the cost .. so far.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 8, 2024 12:31 pm

At least you can get one…

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 8, 2024 11:57 am

I sense a business opportunity.
Walk into a home with a problematic dishwasher.
Attach computer, make computer noises, and frown saying “It’s carked it. you need a new one”.
15 minutes and $100 later, the know-nothing “repairman” walks to the pub for a celebratory pint.

Entropy
Entropy
November 8, 2024 12:44 pm

It was updating the software.
Coule of months ago i had a brand new Bosch /oven/microwave/ air fryer not work properly. Got put the iPhone and launched the app, and was able to restore and reset. Fixed it.

why an oven needs such a complicated OS, or even an OS at all, is another story.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 8, 2024 9:47 am

Elon Musk’s estranged trans daughter has vowed to leave the United States following president-elect Donald Trump’s historic win.

Vivian Jenna Wilson, 20, cut ties with father in 2022, when she filed a petition to change her gender, as well as her name, which she hoped would sever any connection between herself and her biological father.

Now, she wants to cut ties with the US after Mr Trump’s re-election, in which her father was instrumental.

“I’ve thought this for a while, but yesterday confirmed it for me. I don’t see my future being in the United States,” Wilson wrote on Threads after Trump’s win. (She doesn’t use X)

“Even if he’s only in office for 4 years, even if the anti-trans regulations magically don’t happen, the people who willingly voted this in are not going anywhere anytime soon,” she added.

Wilson is one of six children Musk, 53, shares with his first wife, Justine Wilson.

Vivian previously accused Musk of being an absent parent who did not acknowledge her gender identity.

Musk blamed “neo-Marxists” at elite private schools and universities for his estranged relationship with his daughter.

In a conversation with biographer Walter Isaacson, Musk said, “She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil.”

Daily Tele

Zippster
Zippster
November 8, 2024 9:59 am
Reply to  Top Ender

Elon Musk’s estranged trans daughter son

fify

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
November 8, 2024 10:17 am
Reply to  Top Ender

Hope she’s going on her own dime.

Entropy
Entropy
November 8, 2024 12:46 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

There is often a short distance between genius and madness.

Spinning Mouse
Spinning Mouse
November 8, 2024 1:12 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

See you later honey. Do you need a lift to the airport?

Zippster
Zippster
November 8, 2024 9:52 am
Tom
Tom
November 8, 2024 10:04 am
Reply to  Zippster

I didn’t realise you could become a Please Explain supporter, so I have signed up as a member for $10 per month.

This is top-quality Australian satire — an endangered species — and worth supporting.

Lawgi Dawes-Hall
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
November 8, 2024 9:59 am

And whilst this is trivial and shallow, you all might have seen how Trump’s splendid family assembled around him on the podium 

In 2016 Hillary commented to the effect that Trump’s family was his best advertisement. Not narky. She could see it.

Roger
Roger
November 8, 2024 10:02 am

American analyst interviewed on ABC news radio suggests a lot of recent south & east Asian migrants voting for the first time supported Trump.

Who would have imagined that legals don’t like illegal migration & want a strong economy? Obviously not the Democrats.

Last edited 3 months ago by Roger
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 8, 2024 10:07 am

Rosie
 November 8, 2024 5:27 am

Lol

https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1854511605448389114?t=I7zA-LbZUuMoVveOiKQUzg&s=19

Juss in case you miss him this very, very funny.
I laff so much, hombre.

Rabz
November 8, 2024 10:09 am

Time: How Fatty Trump Won

Gee, let me guess – “Election Fortification?”

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 8, 2024 10:13 am
Reply to  Rabz

Compared to Kameltoe “Election Fornication “.

Rabz
November 8, 2024 10:21 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

Or “erection fornication”.

Boambee John.
Boambee John.
November 8, 2024 11:05 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

Wasn’t the TV show Californication?

Rabz
November 8, 2024 11:22 am
Reply to  Boambee John.

And an equally awful red hot chili peppers song. FFS, I hated that band.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 8, 2024 10:17 am

Back to bed for a couple of hours.

Bacon and eggs with potato salad awaits.

Cassie of Sydney
November 8, 2024 10:19 am

I caught a snippet of ScoMo on Skah News on election day.
Triumphant at the growing prospect of a Trump win and effusive in his praise.
It didn’t seem to occur to him that if he had, just once or twice, emulated Trump he might not have gone out backwards.
For example, not issuing a snivelling apology for a flimsy allegation of rape which was before the courts.
Or perhaps, when attacked over a holiday in Hawaii he could have counter-attacked the journo for playing politics in the middle of a bushfire crisis.
What would Donald do?

Quite so. You might have all forgotten how, in the aftermath of the January 6 riot, Labor and the left in this country seized on the opportunity to smear, ridicule and pummel ScoMo and the Liberals over their associations with Trump. ScoMo and the Liberals, instead of putting on their boxing gloves, instead chose to cower in the corner to avoid any association with the Donald in the hours, days and weeks following the riot. Labor and its whores on social media ran ‘riot’ with pictures of ScoMo and Trump, trying to infer that ScoMo was, like his buddy, a far-right, extremist, Nazi, insurrectionist.

And here’s what I did, I actually rang Liberal Party HQ to offer some advice to them, I asked why they weren’t counteracting this bulldust and circulating pictures of Anthony Albanese with his good mate, the Jew hater Jeremy Corbyn? There was silence from the person at the other end of the phone.

The Liberals couldn’t fight their way out of a kindergarten.

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